Zazen, or seated meditation, is praised as the gateway to freedom from samsara, the endless cycle of birth and death. Through zazen, one can realize their true nature and see that their self is no-self. With this realization, they go beyond ego and duality to a state of oneness, where nirvana is openly revealed to them. The text encourages embracing zazen practice, which brings great merit and blessings by helping practitioners understand that their body is the body of Buddha and they are inherently complete.
Zazen, or seated meditation, is praised as the gateway to freedom from samsara, the endless cycle of birth and death. Through zazen, one can realize their true nature and see that their self is no-self. With this realization, they go beyond ego and duality to a state of oneness, where nirvana is openly revealed to them. The text encourages embracing zazen practice, which brings great merit and blessings by helping practitioners understand that their body is the body of Buddha and they are inherently complete.
Zazen, or seated meditation, is praised as the gateway to freedom from samsara, the endless cycle of birth and death. Through zazen, one can realize their true nature and see that their self is no-self. With this realization, they go beyond ego and duality to a state of oneness, where nirvana is openly revealed to them. The text encourages embracing zazen practice, which brings great merit and blessings by helping practitioners understand that their body is the body of Buddha and they are inherently complete.
Like water and ice, without water no ice, outside us no Buddhas. How near the truth, yet how far we seek, like one in water crying “I thirst!” Like a child of rich birth wand’ring poor on this earth, we endlessly circle the six worlds. The cause of our sorrow is ego delusion. From dark path to dark path we’ve wandered in darkness— how can we be free from the wheel of samsara? The gateway to freedom is zazen samadhi— beyond exaltation, beyond all our praises, the pure Mahayana. Observing the precepts, repentance and giving, the countless good deeds, and the way of right living all come from zazen. Thus one true samadhi extinguishes evils; it purifies karma, dissolving obstructions. Then where are the dark paths that lead us astray? The pure Lotus Land is not far away. Hearing this truth, heart humble and grateful, to praise and embrace it, to practice its wisdom, brings unending blessings, brings mountains of merit. And if we turn inward and prove our True-nature— that True-self is no-self, our own Self is no-self— we go beyond ego and past clever words. Then the gate to the oneness of cause and effect is thrown open. Not two and not three, straight ahead runs the Way. Our form now being no-form, in going and returning we never leave home. Our thought now being no-thought, our dancing and songs are the voice of the Dharma. How vast is the heaven of boundless samadhi! How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom! What is there outside us, what is there we lack? Nirvana is openly shown to our eyes. This earth where we stand is the pure Lotus Land, and this very body the body of Buddha. EL CANTO DE HAKUIN-ZENJI EN ALABANZA DEL ZAZEN
Todos los seres son Buda desde el comienzo mismo/
Como el hielo y el agua/ sin el agua no hay hielo/ sin nosotros no hay Budas./ ¡Cuan cerca esta la verdad y cuan lejos la buscamos!/ Como aquel que un lago dice y clama “tengo sed.”/ Como aquel que en la tierra vagando anda en pobreza con un padre adinerado,/así hemos circulado por los seis mundos sin tregua. La causa de nuestra pena es la ilusión de “yo.”/Así/ de camino oscuro en más oscuros caminos,/ hemos deambulado en muy grande oscuridad./ ¿Cómo poder librarnos de la rueda de Samsara?/ De la libertad la entrada es el Zazén Samadh.i/ Del ensalzar mas allá,/ más allá del alabar esta el Mahayana puro./ La observación de Preceptos, caridad,/ arrepentirse,/ la vida del vivir recto,/ acciones buenas sin cuento,/ todo viene del zazén! / Un Samadhi verdadero extingue todos los males,/ purifica nuestro karma al disolver obstrucciones./ ¿Dónde entonces se encuentran los oscuros caminos,/ aquellos que nos desvían?/ La Tierra de Loto Pura de nosotros no esta lejos./ Con gratitud y humildad esta verdad al oír,/ el alabarla,/ abrazarla/ y su gran sabiduría cada instante el practicar/ méritos y bendiciones innumerables nos trae./ Si nosotros nos volvemos hacia adentro de nosotros y sometemos a prueba nuestra Real Naturaleza/ nuestro propio Si-Mismo/ es/ en verdad/ No- Sí-mismo/. Mas allá del yo vamos./ Mas allá de las palabras./ De un solo golpe se abre la puerta que nos conduce a la unidad inherente de la causa y el efecto./ No dos, no tres/ rectamente la Vía corre adelante./ Nuestra forma es ya no-forma./ Si vamos y regresamos no dejamos nuestro hogar./ Y ya nuestro pensamiento es así no- pensamiento/ y nuestras danzas y cantos son la clara voz del Dharma./ ¡Cuan vasto es el paraíso del Samadhi sin limite!/ ¡Cuan transparente y fulgida la luz de Sabiduría!/ ¿Qué hay fuera de nosotros?/ ¿Qué hay que nos haga falta?/ El Nirvana se nos muestra sin velo ante nuestros ojos/ y la tierra donde estamos es la Tierra-Loto-Pura./ Este mismísimo cuerpo es el cuerpo del Buda.